General highlights

General highlights

IIT-M prof wins international award

Deccan Chronicle, 29 December 2022

IIT Madras professor wins VinFuture award

The New Indian Express, 29 December 2022

2022

Meet the educators that were honored with the Padma awards 2021, Telegraph India Nov 15, 2021

Excerpts,”IIT professors, authors and a 102-year-old teacher among award winners….”

IISc honours IIT Madras professor, The Hindu, Oct 14, 2021

Excerpts,” Mr. Pradeep completed his Ph.D in chemical physics from the IISc in 1991….”

From lab to field: IIT-M start-up takes clean water to people, India Narrative, Mar 30, 2021

Excerpts: “Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, ...

2021

Grab co-founders, clean water pioneer and museum curator honored, Nikkei Asian Review, April 30, 2020

Excerpts: “Nikkei recognizes outstanding contributions to quality of life in Asia.....”

Air to Water Generator, April 30, 2020

Excerpts: “Unavailability of drinking water, specifically areas with less water availability.....”

2020

Punjab CM launches water supply, sewerage schemes worth Rs 197 crore, News and Analysis from India, March 04, 2019

Excerpts: “Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday laid the foundation stones of three surface water .....”

2019

IIT Madras Professor T. Pradeep elected to Two Global Academies, INFODEA, December 20, 2018

Excerpts: “He has developed technologies that deliver clean water to 9 million people......”

IIT rolls out water purifier, DTNext, April 18, 2018

Excerpts: “Backed by government programmes, Indian entrepreneurs are overcoming ......”

Research for change, The Hindu, September 29, 2018

Excerpts: “The cost of removing arsenic is less than two to five paise per litre of water ......”

2018

IIT-M develops cheaper device to purify water, Deccan Chronicle, January 16, 2017

Excerpts: “It can replace reverse osmosis in a much cheaper way. A lot of pressure...”

Gold for India, smith JOURNAL, vol. 22, Autumn 2017

Excerpts: “Alchemy is a pseudoscientific system that reached its zenith in medival Europe......”

Unsustainable use in farming depleting groundwater, The Times of India, June 07, 2017

Excerpts: “If efficient methods of water purification are developed, then the issue of groundwater......”

2017

Indian scientists develop low-cost arsenic water filter, The ThirdPole.net, January 22, 2016

Excerpts: “ While historians continue to debate whether arsenic toxicity killed Napoleon Bonaparte...”

Clean Water: America’s Next Civil Rights Battle?, The Take Away, February 15, 2016

Excerpts: “ What India can teach America about clean drinking water...”

Tiny particles with mega impacts, The Source Magazine, February 29, 2016

Excerpts: “ In India, a research scientist and his team are manipulating invisible matter in ways that could quietly disrupt...”

2016

Central approves nation wide use of IITM water purifier, Times of India, December 15, 2015

Excerpts: “A nanotechnology based water purifier developed by Indian Institute of Technology Madras...”

Centre to adopt IITM’s tech, The Hindu, December 15, 2015

Excerpts: “ The union ministry of drinking water and sanitation has proposed to adopt the nanotechnology...”

This water purifier provides arsenic free water at just 5 paise a litre: IIT-M’s gift to the nation, The Better India, December 16, 2015

Excerpts: “ In 2013, a group of researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) developed an affordable nano...”

2015

Honey, I shrunk the mass spectrometer

The Hindu, March 27, 2014

Clean Water: A $16 solution, CNN, September 11, 2014

Excerpts: “Could there be a $16 answer to the global challenge of clean drinking water...”

Walking on Water, Immerse (Shaastra 2014), Jan 4, 2014

Excerpts: “Saving lives though Nanotechnology. A completely Indian water purifier...”

2014

IIT-M develops low-cost nano purifier, The Hindu, February 2013

Excerpts: “Over the next few years, we hope it will benefit at least 10 percent of people...”

Nanoparticle tech could bring clean water to rural poor, Live Science, May 6, 2013

Excerpts: “We had to look at several problems with water...”

Affordable safe drinking water, Nature India, May 7, 2013

Excerpts: “We had to look at several problems with water...”

2013

Govt mulls IIT-made plants for arsenic-free water in Murshidabad, The Statesman, September 2012

Excerpts: “The state government has found a low-cost option for installing anti-arsenic drinking water plants...”

Green chemistry, clean earth, Deccan Herald, October 2012

Excerpts: “Graphene, the fascinating new additions into the carbon family, is opening up...”

Nanotechnology for clean water: Facts and figures, SciDev.Net, November 2012

Excerpts: “Nanotechnology could help give millions clean drinking water...”

2012

Science is ageless but our scientist must be younger, Times of India, January 2011

Excerpts: “Interaction of nanotechnology with biology has produced some exciting result and can be used to create new materials .The bio-nano interface could help solve problems of water, food, health and environment ”

2011

Nano has opened new doors to solve problems, Nano Digest, February 2010

Excerpts: “I do science as my personal existence...”

Nanotech for Societal Bottom, Technology Review, February 2010

Excerpts: “India cannot afford to miss the nanotech bus...”

2010

Nanotechnology is the discipline of convergence, Business Line, December 2009

Excerpts: “ATOM-BY-ATOM Nano tech is 50 years young...”

2009

Fuelling innovation

The Hindu Business Line, November 05, 2007

The future is nano

The Hindu Business Line, March 12, 2007

Book Review Nano – The Essentials understanding Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Current Science, June 2007

The author provides an elegant introduction in the first part with beautiful photographs of the celebrated gold...

2007

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2024

Prof. M.V. Pylee Award for T. Pradeep

The Hindu, 12 March 2024

2023

Eni Award for IIT Madras professor

The Times of India, 18 July 2023

IIT-M professor T Pradeep secures Eni Award

The New Indian Express, 18 July 2023

2022

IIT-M prof wins international award

Deccan Chronicle, 29 December 2022

IIT Madras professor wins VinFuture award

The New Indian Express, 29 December 2022

ఐఐటీఎం ఆచార్యుడికి ప్రత్యేక పురస్కారం

(Special award for IIT Madras professor), Eenadu (Telugu), 29 Dec 2022

Prof. Pradeep receives the PSIPW award at UN Vienna

10th Awards ceremony of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz – International Prize for Water (PSIPW) 2022

Amrita Bharatham, Telecasted on DD Malayalam

Prof. Pradeep is a researcher who has dedicated his life to a mission of ensuring clean water for society. He is a pioneer in utilising nanotechnology for water purification. He has been honoured with several awards and very recently he received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz water award.

Prof. Pradeep has been announced as the laureate of the 10th edition of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) in the ‘Creativity Prize’ category.

On 5 June 2022, the Prize Council, under the chairmanship of the president of King Saud University Dr. Badran Al-Omar, and under the direction of PSIPW President HRH Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, approved the winners for the 10th Award (2022)

IIT Madras gets new research centre for wastewater analysis

Excerpts, “IIT-M is establishing a new research centre that will test wastewater in a city for indicator organisms and chemicals and make the data available to the public.”

2021

Meet the educators that were honored with the Padma awards 2021, Telegraph India Nov 15, 2021

Excerpts,”IIT professors, authors and a 102-year-old teacher among award winners….”

IISc honours IIT Madras professor, The Hindu, Oct 14, 2021

Excerpts,” Mr. Pradeep completed his Ph.D in chemical physics from the IISc in 1991….”

From lab to field: IIT-M start-up takes clean water to people, India Narrative, Mar 30, 2021

Excerpts: “Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, says: “Safe and readily-available water…..”

Access to Water – Featuring AMRIT from IIT Madras, India Science Wire, Feb 25, 2021

Excerpts: “To know more about AMRIT (Arsenic and Metal Removal by Indian Technology) of IIT Madras…..”

2020

Grab co-founders, clean water pioneer and museum curator honored, Nikkei Asian Review, April 30, 2020

Excerpts: “Nikkei recognizes outstanding contributions to quality of life in Asia…..”

Air to Water Generator, April 30, 2020

Excerpts: “Unavailability of drinking water, specifically areas with less water availability…..”

Sankhedikavidhyayude peril manushyarkidayile verthirivu koodunu, Prof. T. Pradeep samsarikunu, Asianet News, June 03, 2020

Excerpts: “Ghaveshana pravarthanagalku manushamugham nalkiya shastrajananu IIT Madrasile Prof T Pradeep…..”

Hawa se Pani, Chennai, HISTORY TV18, April 21, 2020

Excerpts: “We present to you the most OMG invention of them all – the atmospheric water generator…..”

2019

The table that defines chemistry turns 150

The Hindu, February 10, 2019

Punjab CM launches water supply, sewerage schemes worth Rs 197 crore, News and Analysis from India, March 04, 2019

Excerpts: “Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday laid the foundation stones of three surface water …..”

Nano Future, The Times of India, April 08, 2019

Excerpts: “Nano technology will revolutionise the diagnosis…..”

The Table that defines chemistry turns 150, The Hindu, February 09, 2019

Excerpts: “The majestic table of elements that hangs on the walls of chemistry classrooms …..”

2019 Edition Of Asian Scientist 100 Announced, Asian Scientist Magazine, March 04, 2019

Excerpts: “Asia has risen rapidly to become a vibrant hub of cutting-edge research…..”

Chennai college celebrates star alumnus Gemini Ganesan, The Times of India, March 19, 2019

Excerpts: “endowment lecture was ‘Science — a way of Life’ delivered by Prof. T. Pradeep…..”

Producing water out of thin air, Business Line, June 24, 2019

Excerpts: “VayuJal has developed atmospheric generators that make potable water…..”

Using Nanotech, Chennai Engineers Are Producing Potable Water From Thin Air!, The Better India, June 28, 2019

Excerpts: “A person with an Atmospheric Water Generator at home can ensure a timely…..”

2018

IIT Madras Professor T. Pradeep elected to Two Global Academies, INFODEA, December 20, 2018

Excerpts: “He has developed technologies that deliver clean water to 9 million people……”

IIT rolls out water purifier, DTNext, April 18, 2018

Excerpts: “Backed by government programmes, Indian entrepreneurs are overcoming ……”

Research for change, The Hindu, September 29, 2018

Excerpts: “The cost of removing arsenic is less than two to five paise per litre of water ……”

These six startups are making drinking water more accessible to Indians, inventiva, September 15, 2018

Excerpts: “India is facing the worst kind of water scarcity in its history ……”

2016

Indian scientists develop low-cost arsenic water filter, The ThirdPole.net, January 22, 2016

Excerpts: “ While historians continue to debate whether arsenic toxicity killed Napoleon Bonaparte…”

Clean Water: America’s Next Civil Rights Battle?, The Take Away, February 15, 2016

Excerpts: “ What India can teach America about clean drinking water…”

Tiny particles with mega impacts, The Source Magazine, February 29, 2016

Excerpts: “ In India, a research scientist and his team are manipulating invisible matter in ways that could quietly disrupt…”

Use nanotechnology to help people, Times of India, March 4, 2016

Excerpts: “ In India, a research scientist and his team are manipulating invisible matter in ways that could quietly disrupt…”

Karnataka Invites Nanotech Ventures, Indian Express, March 4, 2016

Excerpts: “ The government will continue to create a conducive ecosystem for investment…”

Rs 118cr funding for IIT-Madras incubated firm, DT Next, May 9, 2016

Excerpts: “ InnoNano Research, a clean water technology company incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)…”

Water tech incubated at IIT draws $18mn investment from US firm, Indian Express, May 10, 2016

Excerpts: “ In an attempt to make affordable clean drinking water reach very nook and corner of the country…”

IIT-M incubated firm gets $18 million funding, The Hindu, May 10, 2016

Excerpts: “ The clean water tech firm plans labs and offices in North America, Asia and Africa…”

InnoNano raises $18 mn in funding, The Times of India, May 10, 2016

Excerpts: “ The 8-year-old IIT Madras incubated startup’s journey began about 15 years back when Pradeep and his ex-student were dabbling in nanotechnology…”

With $18 million funding, IIT Madras professor breaks the glass ceiling, The Hindu, July 16, 2016

Excerpts: “I am glad that technologies from academic labs are getting venture funding in units of millions of dollars…”

Team With a Midas Touch: Silver Nanoparticles Turned to Gold and Vice Versa by IIT Team, NATURE WORLD NEWS, November 12, 2016

Excerpts: “India has surprisingly transformed silver nanoparticles into gold and……”

2015

Central approves nation wide use of IITM water purifier, Times of India, December 15, 2015

Excerpts: “A nanotechnology based water purifier developed by Indian Institute of Technology Madras…”

Centre to adopt IITM’s tech, The Hindu, December 15, 2015

Excerpts: “ The union ministry of drinking water and sanitation has proposed to adopt the nanotechnology…”

This water purifier provides arsenic free water at just 5 paise a litre: IIT-M’s gift to the nation, The Better India, December 16, 2015

Excerpts: “ In 2013, a group of researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) developed an affordable nano…”

India’s chemistry challenges, Chemistry world, February 3, 2015

Excerpts: “A research team led by Thalappil Pradeep with the nanoscience unit, chemistry department…”

When ace scienties turn rookie entrepreneurs, Economic Times, November 26, 2015

Excerpts: “Scientists of distinction are settingup companies but with a difference to help solve difficult problems…”

Centre approves nationwide use of IIT-M water purifier, ETHealthworld.com, December 15, 2015

Excerpts: “ Chennai: A nanotechnology-based water purifier developed by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras…”

2014

Honey, I shrunk the mass spectrometer

The Hindu, March 27, 2014

Clean Water: A $16 solution, CNN, September 11, 2014

Excerpts: “Could there be a $16 answer to the global challenge of clean drinking water…”

Walking on Water, Immerse (Shaastra 2014), Jan 4, 2014

Excerpts: “Saving lives though Nanotechnology. A completely Indian water purifier…”

Reaching out to the mass, Nano Digest, Jan 1, 2014

Excerpts: “Technology has always been developed for the benefit of human beings!…”

The Lure of Water, Fortune India, June 1, 2014

Excerpts: “Water is provided free or at a nominal price…”

IITM’s Brainchild Purifies Water for a Lakh People, New Indian Express, July 22, 2014

Excerpts: “The Nanotechonology based low cost purifier…”

Nanotechnology can even provide solutions to everyday problems, The Hindu, December 6, 2014

Excerpts: “A tea stall is not what you may expect at an exhibition of cutting-edge nanotechnology…”

2013

IIT-M develops low-cost nano purifier, The Hindu, February 2013

Excerpts: “Over the next few years, we hope it will benefit at least 10 percent of people…”

Nanoparticle tech could bring clean water to rural poor, Live Science, May 6, 2013

Excerpts: “We had to look at several problems with water…”

Affordable safe drinking water, Nature India, May 7, 2013

Excerpts: “We had to look at several problems with water…”

IIT students develop low cost water filter, Deccan Herald, May 7,2013

Excerpts: “Availability of safe drinking water at the point of use can save many lives…”

Nano-scientists develop new kind of portable water purification system, Phys.org, May 7, 2013

Excerpts: “The result is an extremely inexpensive portable water purification device…”

Bengal Arsenic Test for IIT Purifier, The Telegraph, May 8, 2013

Excerpts: “’Rs. 120-a-year’ clean water….”

Nanotech for a glass of clean drinking water, India Links, May 9, 2013

Excerpts: “The consumer can use the filter for a year before reactivating it…”

Bright lights of IIT Madras devise wonder water filter, India Today, May 9, 2013

Excerpts: “The purifier first removes microbial contaminants and then other contaminants such as arsenic and lead …”

Cheap nanotech filter cleard hazardous microbes and chemicals from drinking water, Scientific American, May 9, 2013

Excerpts: “This is a room-temperature green synthesis, which means it can be deployed in any part of the world…”

Composite nanomaterials purify drinking water affordably, Materials 360, May 10, 2013

Excerpts: “I’ve been on this dream for quite some time, it’s a very big thing for me…”

Affordable water purification using silver nanoparticles, The Hindu, May 10, 2013

Excerpts: “The consumer can use the filter for a year before reactivating it…”

Water nanofilter ‘could cut diarrhoea-related deaths’, SciDev.Net, June 7, 2013

Excerpts: “The device emits silver ions to kill water-based microbes…”

Silver nanoparticles to purify water, Column Centimeter, June 17, 2013

Excerpts: “The purifier first removes microbial contaminants…”

Professor uses nanotechnology to build affordable water filter, Rediff.com, June 17, 2013

Excerpts: “If you can provide clean water, you have provided solution for almost everything…”

2007

Fuelling innovation

The Hindu Business Line, November 05, 2007

The future is nano

The Hindu Business Line, March 12, 2007

Book Review Nano – The Essentials understanding Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Current Science, June 2007

Excerpts: “The author provides an elegant introduction in the first part with beautiful photographs of the celebrated gold nanoparticles prepared by Faraday and also the Lycurgus cup made in the 4th century AD…”

The future is nano, Business Line, March 2007

Excerpts: “One can start arranging molecules to achieve the functions of a complex machine. A future with controlled molecular assemblies of this kind, the molecular nanotechnology, will revolutionize everything – from food to thought will change with this newly acquired power…”

Atom-by-atom, from amoeba to elephant, Business Line, March 2007

Excerpts: “Every molecular assembly in nature is by this atom-by-atom approach. From amoeba to elephant is made this way. These synthetic routes are the most energy efficient, green and sustainable…”

Fuelling innovation – All about fuel cells, paper battery and Nobel prizes, Business Line, November 2007

Excerpts: “Chemistry at the surfaces has been central to industrial revolution, modern agriculture, etc. Now it is being recognized also in the context of environmental protection, atmospheric processes and so on…”

Bangalore Nano, Soft Machines – Thoughts on the future of nanotechnology from Richard Jones, December 2007

Excerpts: “We shouldn’t worry just about products and devices – nanotechnology is a new type of science, which will dissolve barriers between physics and chemistry and biology and bring in engineering…”